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Originally Posted by Random

It's the whole sex vs violence thing. Snake was easily modifiable into a "family friendly" character, he was still Snake, he just didn't use guns in Brawl. But most of Bayonetta's attacks involve her clothes coming off. Even if they removed those elements, it's still a much more touchy subject.

She didn't get into Sega All Stars Racing, I don't see her ever getting into Smash.

In a game where Zero Suit Samus is given a revealing bikini as her alt for no other reason then nerd boners (I know its from Metroid Zero Mission, but out of all the hundreds and hundreds of potential alts that didn't make it, I don't think we can make a different reasonable argument for why the secret ending for the GBA game got chosen) and Palutena is given an awkward victory picture of Luigi perving on her bathing, plus a taunt in which she uses her staff to pole dance, I don't think Bayonetta's Wicked Weaves would be a problem at all. After all, its only when she uses Final Climax that she's actually naked, every other time she's simply in a black one-piece bikini, which they could easily use for her Final Climaxes as well. And heck, if that is still too much of a problem, don't have her lose her clothes at all! Just make her hair swirl all around her as she poses. Sure, it wouldn't be quite true to Bayonetta's character, but I don't think many would complain when we've got a great third-party character that caters to adults to replace the loss of Snake.

Plus the difference with Bayonetta is that its exaggerated and comical, you're not really supposed to find her sexy, everything from her design to her speech to her movements to her attacks is so amazingly over the top the entire sexualization is a huge well-done parody. You can't really say that for Palutena or Zero Suit Samus who really are just being overly sexualized for the sake of being sexy. I don't see why one's OK and the other's not. If Snake can be slightly edited to make a character that doesn't upset Soccer Mums, Bayonetta definitely can too.

As for Smash itself, I trained my first Amiibo (Aesir the Pikachu!). I'm ashamed to admit that twice me and my friends lost a 5-stock free for all too him when he was LVL 50. Such an embarrassment! Training them is fun and its cool seeing the progression as they learn how to react to things, but I'm a little disappointed that you can't really teach them combos. I showed him how to throw upwards and then Thunder about 100 times and he never picked it up, so I'm thinking that Nintendo exaggerated just how much an Amiibo can "learn". I've also seen other people report that its not possible to teach them how to meteor smash either. Levelling him up was satisfyingly quick. I think from LVL 1-50 only took about 2 hours. He levelled up about three levels per 5-stock battle, so just shoving him in when I was playing with my friends moved him along very quickly.

I'm also a little surprised that they can't join you for 2-Player "Classic" or All-Star modes. Its not a problem for me, who lives with two other Smash players, but I can really understand why that'd be a disappointing and strange omission to people who don't have anyone to play with.